Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-20
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| WHENEVER bllndiY addressed letter with
| Hopper street" on it gets into the dead-let-
| ter Office it is at once sent to Utica, because
| that Is the only city in the country that s
known to have Hopper street.
JAMES ARBUoKLE, of Missouri City, rralely
! insists that he has cat that can sing "SwNt
| Vloets." 1t cannot speak the words, but ca
| carry the tune" so that it is easily recog
nlzed. This cat can also say Eyes" and mo-
TEE first copy OF the original edition OIL
''Tne Letters of Columbus in Latin, printed
| in 1893, the year after the discovery of Ameri-
| ca. was recently sold IN Cologne for 5000
marks ($l,650), the highest price ever paid for
single book in Germany.
THE ice cutting on the Kennebec river is
completed. All the companies report excel
| lent quality and thickness. At some houses
| ice twentv-elght inches in thickness has been
| secured. The cut is about 100000 tons, and is
| said to be the best crop ever harvested.
RoNDoUT bull pup was put in room
| the other day with five big rats. He shook
| the life out of four in a jiffy, but when the
| fifth crawled slowly toward him and actually
held up its forepaws, as if begging for its life,
the dog couldn't be induced to touch it.
SHOCK has been administered to Eng
| lands Civil Service Commissioners by the
discovery that certain wise gentlemen make
business OF passing examinations under the
names OF men not so wise, and hand over the
passes and clerkshIps secured by their wis
dom TO their less braIny employers,
1T Is SAID that all the Anarchists who figured
as witnesses for the State in the great trial at
Chicago have mysteriously disappeared from
that city. Some are in France, some In Ger
many and few in Switzerland. Theodore
Fricke, late manager of the Arbeirer Zeitung,
IS conducting saloon and grocery store n
Oakland, Cal.
A PRETTY GIRL called upon Rubenstein and
entreated him to hear her play. With rather
bad grace he consented, and the lady sat
down at the piano. When she had hammered
out one piece she turned round and modestly
asked: wi hat ought | to do. Mr.. Ruben
stcn" The great pianist gave his back hair
one shake and growled out-''Get married."
CHARLES A. PILLsBURY, the great Mime
| apolis miller, was poor when, in 1853, he was
graduated from Dartmouth. Four years
later, still poor. he went to Minneapolis and
established a business which TO- day is the
| largest Of its kind In the world. His mills
| turn out $4,000 barrels of -four daily. and he
| pays for freight alone on his wheat ST. 500, 0G0
/ yearly.
| THERE are labor troubles as Seattle ap-
parently, judging from the following notice
| sent out by the Kn ghts of Labor: working
| men are cautioned to keep away from Seattle
| for at least two months from the date of this
| notice, Men, women and children are want
! ing for the necessares of life here. Believe
no garbled interviews or advertisements to
THERE is an editor in Sedalia, Mo. who
seems to have struck a hard streak of luck
Listen to his burst of righteous but vernacu-
| lar indignation: ''This ID about the meanest
| yaller dog style of town in the blooming State
| of Mizoori. Yesterday we went out on a col
| lection tour and couldn't get 40 cents but
| the First National Bank gave us a news item
| to the effect that their deposits for the day
| ron above $4,000. We are going to Texas or
| Arkansaw where man can starve more COM
| fOrtably."
| ONE Of the witnesses examined in the Coro-
| ner's Office in New York the other day was a
little old Irish woman who loudly lamented
the time lost In coming down town. and
| wanted to know who was going to nav her
\ car fare. Il will" said Coroner Nugent and
| then he asked her: Are you marrieuPD
| Faith Ofm not.' she answered. "Oi'm a
| wildly. OI've been lucking for an old man
| but they're moIghty. scarce. Are We mar
| ried?" The Coroner blushed and said that he
| was not. "Shure, thin, ye niver will be-" said
/ the witness. earnestly.
AYJUNG MAN of Haoney Station, NIB. ont
| shooting, came upon a bear cub. which he
| captured and started to carry home But its
| cries brought its mother who soon overlook
| the hunter and grabbed him in her strong
arms. As she began to squeeze he pricked
| the cub, which cried. and at that the mother
| bear relaxed her hold. The hunter ran, the
| bear caught him again. and he repeated the
| trick with success. So they kept 1T up until
| the man overlook a lumberman's team. and
the Old bear gave up the chase and went OFF
leaving her cub to its captor.
IN New York few days ago a lady who ia
| addicted to all sorts and conditions of baths
was walking down Broadway, when her
wandering gaze was attracted by gorgeous
| sign on which "Roman Baths" in large let
| ters threw some other explanatory lines in
| smaller type quite in the shade. Entering
she inquired the hours for ladies. An indio
| vidual of a suspiciOusly sporting MANI an
| pearance looked at her, first amazed. then
| with amusement, and replied: Don't manv
| ladies come here, save those like Miss Wood
| ford and Lizzie Dryer. These here baths is
| for horses, ma'am."
"FEw in our profession, !" says a theatrica,
manager "realize what bligbting effect this
interstate commerce law will have on the
stuff we nave been in the habit of CARRYING
over the country. The law declares that ALI
special concessions in rates for passengers or
baggage are unlawful and must be abolished
Where does this leave us? The idea of paw
ing full fare for eighty or ninety peoule IN a
spectacular company IS something never CON
templated by any proprietor. Add 10 fulI
passenger rates the maximum of freight or
baggage or express charges and the effect
will be most disastrous"
IN 1882 John SDrain was appointed post
master at Big Spring, Shelby county. Ill. and
he held the place for fifty-four wears.
Soon after the election of Cleveland. Uncle
Jack, though Democrat. sent IN his resirna-
ton. and new man has lately been appointed
in his stead. The Office is a small affair. and
Sprain never kept y record OF the business
except in his mind, but at the end of each
quarter he promptly remitted to the authori
ties at Washington the amount due the gov.
eminent. short time ago he received q
government warrant for $40, in payment for
his services as postmaster for fifty -four wears.
AN attempt has been made in the Mater
nifty Hospital, Glasgow. to rear babies in a
queer way. Triplets were born there prema-
turey ga months old. They were put naked
into a wooden box, diviued into two compart-
ments. upper and lower. They crawIed
around. or rather lay helpless in the MINER
compartment, while hot water bottles in The
lower compartment kept the air as hot as
any triplet could wish. moist sponge pre-
vented too great dryness, and a thermometer
regulated the supply OF hot bottles, Two
triplets have died so far. The other. il ia
thought, Will i've, which the doctors saw no
could not possibly have done il he had NOT
been brought up by machinery.
AMONG most nations there is an instructive
recognition of the sacredness of hospitality.
The Arab. the Indian, and even the GEORGIA
Cracker" all feel the force OF this. though
sometimes persons who make greater preten
slons forget il. An unpretendinR man. who
had recently become rich. gave dinner To a
brilliant Senator from Kentucky Dur,rg